CALA's Occasional Paper Series (OPS) provides an opportunity for members of the Chinese American Librarians Association to publish a peer-reviewed article on any aspect of librarianship. Each issue in the Occasional Paper Series is independent.
An Occasional Paper may be a work stemming from the activities and interests of the Chinese librarianship; a paper delivered at a library conference; a bibliography, index, guide, handbook, research manual or directory; a report of a survey or study of interest to librarians of all types of libraries; a compilation of existing documents such as library policies or procedures; or a concentrated study or analysis of a single idea or concept.
An Occasional Paper is a less-than-book-length academic publication (around 50 pages) issued in the same format with regular intervals but not as rigid as that of periodicals. The submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by two reviewers who have expertise in the areas with the submitted manuscripts.
The paper/papers of the initial issues (2008) in OPS will be published in a digital format with open access and will be posted on the CALA web. The author(s) will hold copyright for the published papers. Each issue will include one or more papers that are on a similar topic.
The CALA OPS is being indexed by EBSCO.
Issues
No. 11
Turvey, J. (2012). The CUNY-Shanghai Library Faculty Exchange Program. CALA Occasional Paper Series, No. 11 (June), 1-5. [ PDF ]
No. 10
Wang, J. (2012). From the Ground to the Cloud: A Practice at California State University, East Bay. CALA Occasional Paper Series, No. 10 (May), 1-8. [ PDF ]
No. 9
Vohra, R. & Chou, M. (2011). Using internal grant to foster faculty-librarian collaboration. CALA Occasional Paper Series, No. 9 (May), 1-6. [ PDF ]
No. 8
Wang, Y. (2011). A primer on building the library mobile web. CALA Occasional Paper Series, No. 8 (March), 1-7. [ PDF ]
No. 7
Tang, Y. & Xia, Z. (2010). A study of subject service in Chinese academic libraries. CALA Occasional Paper Series, No. 7 (November), 1-6. [ PDF ]
No. 6
Zhou, W., Zou, T. & Dong, E. (2010). Making our communities greener: A case study of promoting biogas energy by Tongwei Evergreen Libraries in China. CALA Occasional Paper Series, No. 6 (February), 1-13. [ PDF ]
No. 5
Lo, M. L., Sun, L., Womack, R., Wu, C. & Yang, T. (2009). Celebrating diversity, welcoming the world: Developing a Chinese webpage at Rutgers University Libraries. CALA Occasional Paper Series, No. 5 (July), 1-11. [ PDF ]
No. 4
Guo, J. X. (2009). Building an institutional repository at a liberal arts college. CALA Occasional Paper Series, No. 4 (June), 1-13. [ PDF ]
No. 3
Shen, L. (2009). Organizational and operational optimization of academic library and information technology. CALA Occasional Paper Series, No. 3 (June), 1-11. [ PDF ]
No. 2
Dong, E. X. (2008). Using blogs for knowledge management in libraries. CALA Occasional Paper Series, No. 2 (November), 1-7. [ PDF ]
No. 1
Xu, H. (2008).The theory analysis of faculty participation in institutional repositories. CALA Occasional Paper Series, No. 1 (March), 1-15. [ PDF ]
The decision to publish papers on the Series will rest on recommendations made by peer reviewers. All submissions should follow the following format:
To submit a manuscript to be published in the Occasional Paper Series, please send it as an e-mail attachment to Yunshan Ye, editor of CALA OPS, at yye@jhu.edu. To become an Occasional Paper Series reviewer, click here.
Endorsed by the Board of Directors on January 24, 2009
OPS Editor-in-chief
Eligibility and Qualifications: A CALA member in good standing will be eligible. The appointment will be made based on the qualifications including excellent communication skills, previous editorial experience and evidence of established scholarship. The OPS editor-in-chief is required to produce at least one publication in the OPS per year.
Term: OPS Editor is recommended by the CALA Publications Committee and approved by the CALA Board for a three-year term. The official term starts immediately at the end of the CALA annual program in conjunction with the ALA Annual Conference. A second three-year term may be re-appointed.
Reports to:CALA Publications Committee.
Responsibilities:
OPS Assistant Editors
Eligibility and Qualifications: CALA members in good standing will be eligible to serve. The appointments will be made based on the qualifications including good communication skills, previous relevant experience and evidence of scholarly productivities.
Term: OPS Assistant editors are recommended by the CALA Publications Committee to the CALA Board and are appointed for three-year terms at the ALA Annual Conference when the terms of current assistant editors end. A list of candidates for the assistant editors should be recommended by the CALA Publications Committee to the OPS editor for consideration. The Committee should submit the final list of candidates to the CALA Board prior to or at the mid-winter meeting in January. The official term starts immediately at the end of the CALA annual program in conjunction with the ALA Annual Conference. A second three-year term may be re-appointed.
Reports to:CALA OPS Editor-in-chief
Responsibilities:
Assistant Editors for Manuscripts (on staggered term):
Assists the editor-in-chief to communicate with authors and the reviewers for revisions;
Produces the final copy of the reviewed manuscripts to make sure that they are free from grammatical errors or typos
Assistant Editor for Production:
Designs cover page and content pages for consistency with each issue before posting it on CALA's web site;
Seeks advertisements or sponsors for OPS;
Updates the OPS reviewer's list and sends appreciation letters to reviewers each year, etc.
The editorial board members should work as a team and take on duties that are not specified here when necessary.
CALA's OPS (Occasional Paper Series) is an open access publication of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA). It provides an opportunity for CALA members to publish peer-reviewed articles on any aspect of librarianship.
An occasional paper may be a work stemming from the activities and interests of the Chinese librarianship; a paper delivered at a library conference; a bibliography, index, guide, handbook, research manual or directory; a report of a survey or study of interest to librarians of all types of libraries; a compilation of existing documents such as library policies or procedures; or a concentrated study or analysis of a single idea or concept.
An occasional paper is a less-than-book-length academic publication (around 50 pages) issued in the same format with regular intervals but not as rigid as that of periodicals. Each issue will include one or more papers that are on a similar topic.
The author(s) hold(s) copyright for the published papers. The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, world-wide, perpetual (for the lifetime of the applicable copyright) right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, perform and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works in any digital medium for any reasonable purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship, as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
Submitted papers will be reviewed by two reviewers who have expertise in the areas with the submitted manuscripts. The decision to publish papers on the CALA's OPS will rest on recommendations made by peer reviewers. All submissions should follow the following format:
To submit a manuscript, please send it as an e-mail attachment to Yunshan Ye, editor of CALA OPS, at yye@jhu.edu. To become an Occasional Paper Series reviewer, click here.
Dear Colleagues,
The CALA Board of Directors approved a proposal presented by the 2005 CALA Publications Committee (Chaired by Hai-peng Li) to establish a publication called Occasional Paper Series (OPS) at its Board meeting held in June 2005 at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. This publication intends to provide opportunities for CALA members to get their research findings and best practices published and to grow in the library profession. The CALA Publications Committee is assuming responsibilities to publish initial issues of OPS in 2006.
You are all cordially invited to submit papers on any aspect of librarianship. The manuscripts should be sent to Yunshan Ye, editor of CALA OPS, at yye@jhuu. For detailed submission information, please check Requirements for Submissions.
If you are interested in becoming a reviewer for this publication, please fill out the Invitation Form
OPS Editor-in-Chief
Yunshan Ye, (2012-2015) yye@jhu.edu
OPS Assistant Editors:
Lois Mai Chan, (2009-2012) loischan@uky.edu
David Hickey, (2010-2013) dhickey@uflib.ufl.edu
Ingrid Hsieh-Yee (2009-2012) Hsiehyee@cua.edu
Note:
Judy Jeng is the Inaugural Editor-in-Chief, CALA OPS (2006-2009) jeng.judy@gmail.com
Xue-Ming Bao, the Editor-in-Chief, CALA OPS (2009-2012) baoxuemi@shu.edu